It’s been a big 24 hours for Cyan Ta’eed. Last night she was named the winner of the business enterprise category in the AFR and Westpac’s 100 Women of Influence Awards. Today, she&#…
Nasty Gal’s Sophia Amoruso: Be a Girlboss and take charge of your own life
Sophia Amoruso proudly owns the term Girlboss. So much so that the Nasty Gal founder and one of the world’s richest self-made women wrote a best-selling book about it in 2014 – encouraging other women…
Would you bring your parents to work, and do they know what you actually do?
Workplaces can seem baffling and mysterious to some, with buzzwords and the key skills required to be successful today leaving many parents confused about what their children actually do all day in th…
‘It’s my first business and I got really far’: Nasty Gal founder opens up after bankruptcy
It’s been 24 hours since Sophia Amoruso’s Nasty Gal filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States, a business Amoruso started building ten years ago, which went on to bec…
AICD board now 50% female with new appointment
Nicola Wakefield Evans has been appointed to the national board of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, which will see the 12-person board go 50% female for the first time. The appointment a…
‘The reality is that you need support’: Dell MD Angela Fox on the program that’s supported 170 mentoring relationships
It’s Ok to fire a mentor, according to one of Australia’s most influential women in tech, Dell ANZ Managing Director and Senior Vice President Angela Fox. She says such relationships can come to a log…
‘I got labeled many descriptive words’: Male speaker on signing a pledge to only appear on gender-balanced panels
What happens when one of the country’s most in-demand male speakers makes a public promise to never again appear on a male-dominated panel? Well as I learnt sharing a panel with Dr Adam Fraser recentl…
‘Quotas work, let’s support countries that have them’: Natasha Stott Despoja on 3 years as Ambassador for Women and Girls
When Natasha Stott Despoja was appointed Ambassador for Women and Girls in late 2013, a certain (now former) Financial Review columnist described the appointment as a ‘cynical piece of politics’, whic…
Meet the bridal designer who created 20 sausage costumes for a protest against ‘sausage fests’
Last week Caitlyn Elliott took some time out from her usual delicate work of designing and making wedding gowns to do something a little different. She’d received an urgent – and unique &…
